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McKinley was in favor of annexation, and the change in leadership was soon felt. On June 16, 1897, McKinley and three representatives of the government of the Republic of Hawaii – Lorrin Thurston, Francis Hatch, and William Kinney – signed a treaty of annexation. President McKinley then submitted the treaty to the U.S. Senate for ratification.
John Harrington Stevens, the first official resident west of the Mississippi River in what would become Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was involved in the Mexican-American War, and he served in both the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1857-1858 and the Minnesota Senate in 1859-1860. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams ...
John H. Stevens. Stevens during his time on the Minnesota Legislature. John Harrington Stevens (June 13, 1820 – May 28, 1900) was the first authorized colonial resident on the west bank of the Mississippi River in what would become Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was granted permission to occupy the site, then part of the Fort Snelling military ...
Apr 2, 2024 · Collections include: American broadsides and ephemera, Early American imprints, series I: Evans, 1639-1800; Early American imprints, series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819; Early American newspapers, series I, 1690-1876, and government publications including American state papers, 1789-1838, House and Senate journals, series I, 1789-1817, Senate ...
On May 8, 1866, Thaddeus Stevens delivered this speech introducing the 14th Amendment in the U.S. House of Representatives. The leader of the Radical Republicans in the House, Stevens was a lawyer, politician, and staunch abolitionist. As a politician in Pennsylvania, he supported free public education and suffrage for African Americans.
Primary Sources: Words of the Enlightenment c. 1750–1900. Compiled and annotated by Eman M. Elshaikh, additional edits by Terry Haley. It would be a mistake to think that Enlightenment ideas pointed everyone in the same direction. These primary sources show how widely new notions of liberty were interpreted.
Mar 28, 2024 · Primary sources are first-hand accounts, original manuscripts, records, or documents produced from the time period at hand. Some examples of types of primary sources include the following: Letters. Photographs. Maps. Speeches. Interviews. Government documents. Historical records. Personal papers, memoirs, diaries. Artwork. Newspaper articles ...
